Prime numbers near to each other tend to avoid repeating their last digits, the mathematicians say: that is, a prime that ends in 1 is less likely to be followed by another ending in 1 than one ...

Math is the search for patterns in numbers to reveal an underlying rule or concept. Like many of today’s students who are coached to search for patterns in numbers, numbers persons understand ...

A new software program, described in the latest issue of Science, is designed to find the patterns in data that scientists don't know to look for.

One set rises gradually, another moderately and the third steeply. Count the number of spirals and you’ll find eight gradual, 13 moderate and 21 steeply rising ones. Fibonacci numbers again.

The team discovered strong indications of such a pattern using computer simulations to see what would happen if prime numbers were treated like a string of atoms subjected to X-rays. In work published ...

A linear (or arithmetic) sequence increases or decreases by the same number each time, whereas non-linear sequences have different patterns between the numbers. A geometric sequence has a term-to ...